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The Daily Dispatch: April 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Bitter attack on Gen. McClellan. (search)
the extremities, the centre will fall with crushing weight upon Manassas, and the rebellion will be ended. Be patient. By and-by the gallant Burnside, after encountering and mangling obstacles immeasurably worse than all the mud that can be piled between the Potomac and the Rappahannock, opens fire at Roanoke in the East, while Fort Henry, on the Tennessee, and Donelson, on the Cumberland, their brave assailants wallowing to their armpits in the mire, send the echo back to Albemarle. Mitchell, catching the inspiration, buffets sleet and storm, and by forced marches seizes Bowling Green, while Siegel falls suddenly upon Springfield, Curtis chases Price quite down into Arkansas, our gunboats penetrate beyond Pulaski and threaten Savannah, and Gen. Buller hurries off his regiments and transports to the Gulf for an attack, via Ship Island, upon New Orleans! Does this mounting in hot hastes, this gleaming of bayonets and bursting of shells all around from Pickens to Springfield, dis
The Daily Dispatch: April 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War in America. (search)
a juror. Martha Pemberton was fined $10 for permitting her slave to go at large and hire himself out, contrary to law. John Denzler was tried by jury for an assault on Hannah Houck, (his sister.) The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. The following named defendants, indicted for issuing notes of a less denomination than $5, severally paid to the Clerk the costs in their cases, when nolle prosequies were entered by the Attorney for the Commonwealth, viz: R. T. Reynolds, two cases; W. P. Perkins, four cases; Francis B. Hart, six cases; George I. Herring, two cases; Wm. G. Dandridge, two cases; John B. Glazebrook, two cases; A. D. Williams, two cases; T. W. Parker, two cases; Lucien Hill, two cases; R. D. Mitchell, two cases; D. Baker, Jr., nine cases; Thos. B. Starke, eleven cases. The consideration of the gaming cases will be resumed this morning. No doubt the Court or Prosecuting Attorney will soon see the propriety of trying or dismissing these petty cases.
The Daily Dispatch: April 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Wisdom and Folly. (search)
adversely to the memorial of the Committee of Public Safety of New Orleans, suggesting the propriety of instituting a general committee of safety. The committee asked to be discharged from further consideration of the subject; which was agreed to. Mr. Sparrow, from the same committee, also reported favorably upon House bills to organize a signal corps and to increase the artillery corps of the army, and unfavorably upon the resolution to appoint cooks for companies in the army. Mr. Mitchell, of Ark, from the Committee of Postal Affairs, reported a bill on behalf of the committee to amend the act regulating the postal arrangements of the Confederacy, and providing that, from and after the 1st of July next, the post on single letters, weighing not more than one-half ounce, shall be ten cents, to any portion of the Confederate States; for every other additional half ounce, or for letters weighing above half an ounce, an extra postage of ten cents shall be charged. The bi